Detect Audit Policy Modifications with Microsoft 365 Defender

Hello there, In today’s blog post I want to share with you an advanced hunting query to detect audit policy modifications using Microsoft Defender 365 advanced hunting. Following the MITRE ATT&CK framework this would be T1484.001 Domain Policy Modification: Group Read More …

Use advanced hunting to Identify Defender clients with outdated definitions

In an ideal world all of our devices are fully patched and the Microsoft Defender antivirus agent has the latest definition updates installed. Unfortunately reality is often different. When using Microsoft Endpoint Manager we can find devices with outdated definition Read More …

Advance your Microsoft Defender ATP hunting skills using the Atomic execution framework

Hello everyone, during the past months I took a closer look at MITRE ATT&CK to advance my hunting skills using Microsoft Defender Advanced Threat Protection. For those not familiar with MITRE ATT&CK, in short, it is a knowledge base knowledge Read More …

Microsoft Defender ATP Advanced Hunting – Who’s logging on with local admin rights?

Note: I have updated the kql queries below, but the screenshots itself still refer to the previous (old) schema names If you’re among those administrators that use Microsoft Defender Advanced Threat Protection, here’s a handy tip how to find out Read More …